#pensando

AMD has just announced that it intends to acquire chip and data center optimization startup Pensando Systems Inc. Pensando is one of several vendors competing in the emerging data processing unit (DPU) market. Through Pensando's platform, they are able to distribute throughout its network in accelerating multiple infrastructure services more efficiently. Pensando already has large enterprises as customers with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Pensando’s platform has a programmable packet processor that can be distributed throughout a network to efficiently accelerate multiple infrastructure services simultaneously, offloading workloads from the CPU and increasing overall system performance. The acquisition of Pensando by AMD is all in the effort of increasing its share in the data center market and will get AMD into the NPU or IPU market as it goes up against the likes of NVIDIA’s and Intel’s data-center chip packages. “Today, with our acquisition of Pensando, we add a leading distributed services platform to our high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA and adaptive SoC portfolio. The Pensando team brings world-class expertise and a proven track record of innovation at the chip, software and platform level,” Read more in our articles including "AMD is acquiring data center startup Pensando for $1.9 Billion" and "Insta360 Luna Ultra launched, priced in the Philippines".